Book Review: Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

In most business-related books, the general rule of thumb is that if you manage to get a single nugget of valuable information, the book was worth the cost.  This rule is a result of understanding that business books are based on amalgamations of information - that a book on any given topic isn’t going to [...]

Book Translation?

I was looking at my visitor statistics today and see that I have a heavy number of readers from places in Brazil, Portugal, Russia and Germany.  I think this means that the translation services are being put to good use.
So I wondered: Is there a need for the Software Licensing Handbook to be translated into [...]

Open Letter to Owners of the Software Licensing Handbook (either edition)

Dear Reader:
One of my favorite aspects of Stephen King is that he tries desperately to communicate with his readers. He sends “open letters” to them through the front or back pages of each novel… leaves notes on his website… whatever he can do to let them know that he’s a real person, with real [...]

First 8 Sessions of the Software Licensing Education Series Released

In the last several years, I’ve had the pleasure of conducting a wide variety of software licensing training programs all around the country.  Attendees that I’ve talked with at these sessions have all expressed a desire to continue their software licensing and contract negotiation learning experience once they’ve returned home.  For the first time, software [...]

New Edition of the Software Licensing Handbook Released!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  September 12, 2008
New Book Helps Anyone Negotiate Software Licenses
RALEIGH, NC – The second edition of the popular Software Licensing Handbook, offers negotiators of all skill-levels an opportunity for the upper hand when in the often complex world of software licensing.
Written by expert negotiator Jeffrey I. Gordon who specializes in IT and telecommunications [...]

Special Offer for Owners of the Software Licensing Handbook, 2ed

On September 12th, I will be sending out notice to the world announcing the availability of the second edition of the Software Licensing Handbook.  You might have noticed the book picture on the right has changed a bit… yep, you can buy it today (I’ll be available via Amazon and other resellers in about a [...]

Protected: SLH p. 145, first word

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Cover Contest

Last Saturday, I sent out an RFP to a bunch of graphic designers looking for ideas on the cover to the Software Licensing Handbook, Second Edition (due in September).
I don’t know why I didn’t think to ask all of you, too.  So here I am, humbled by my oversight.  Please forgive me… and if you’re [...]

Software Licensing Handbook Review by Brian Sommer

Brian Sommer over at Software Safari posted a nice review of my Software Licensing Handbook today.
Brian: thank you for taking the time to read the whole book and write the review!

What Jeff has done is dismantle a standard software contract. He has dissected its component parts into easy to understand sections that explain what a [...]

Translation Services

When looking at my visitor logs, I noticed that I’m getting a larger number of non-US visitors.  I found a translation utility and you can now click a flag on the sidebar (look down and to the right) corresponding to your country.  I’m sorry it doesn’t include all languages, I’m limited to those available on [...]

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